Clio

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Why?A classic gets a facelift

Ken Oringer's Clio in the Back Bay has long been one of the city's best fine-dining destination restaurants. This week the relatively staid room reopens, with a new focus on the bar and a reinvigorated cocktail program from head barman Todd Maul. The bar itself will be lengthened, with a new walnut top and interior illumination. There will be a new entrance off the street, new carpeting, booths, and seating throughout the dining room as well as a better flow between the main Clio room and the offshoot sushi bar Uni. The new menus haven't been unveiled yet, but as long as the new offerings are in line with favorites like the miso-marinated Nova Scotian Halibut with broccoli mousseline, glass noodle, Szechuan oil and Chinese sausage I don't think we'll have much to worry about.